Speaking to Digital Spy, Danny has dismissed any suggestions that he bullied Martin, with the pair initially clashing after the first live trial in The Hungry Games over Danny allegedly gloating over his team's win and Martin's treatment of Scarlett Moffatt.

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"I didn't go in there planning to have rows and to blow up – but it's not entirely alien to my nature. I didn't mean to cause arguments. I'm very cathartic. Once you've had a go at someone, that's it," he explained.

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And Danny noted that he's not someone to say things behind the back of another person, rather he'd just say it to their face.

"Is it confrontational? Yes. But when you pull someone up, you don't brood about it. You lance the boil and the next morning, we were both sitting together again. He moved on," he said.

"For a bloke to turn around and say he's the victim in all this, that's passive aggressive nonsense."

"It's not my fault a bloke breaks down and cries after I've picked him up because he's having a go at one of the girls in there. Some might say that's symptomatic of something else, when you're pulled up on it," he continued.

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"Don't say, 'I'm the victim!'. If you don't have a go at Scarlett, I won't step in. If I had been having a go at everyone in there, they could say, 'Danny is out of control'. But that didn't happen.

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"If a bloke is having a go at a young girl and patronising her – and she's not got the guts to come back, I think any man will step in and say, 'Shut up! Have a go at me if you want to have a go at someone – but no you won't'. I'll do that anywhere, not just on television. Surely anyone would?"

Despite their clashes, Danny doesn't view Martin's behaviour in the camp as odd, saying that it's something you get used to as you realise "that's what he's like" – and once Martin had realised what the show was like.

"He told me he misjudged it, which was a huge admission for him. He's never really seen the show. He thought it was like all reality shows where everyone goes in there and causes fireworks," he recalled.

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"Within the general machinery of this show, when you win a game against the other team, of course you're going to jump up and down. He thought, 'Right, I'm going to be the one who doesn't stand for that'. And I think he embarrassed himself by that."

As for the person involved in the 'bullying' scandal', Danny has nothing but praise for Scarlett.

"The only thing Scarlett hides is her intellect. She is funnier when she's quieter. She knows that people like that personality [on Gogglebox], but the proper personality she has is as smart and as funny as anyone I've ever known – and I mean that," he enthused.

I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! continues tonight (November 27) at 9pm on ITV.

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